The Stupidity of Valuing Patriarchy Above All Else

The Stupidity of Valuing Patriarchy Above All Else

The rot at the heart of our society isn’t just cruel—it’s staggeringly stupid. We live in a world where patriarchal values are prioritized above everything else, and the result is a civilization rotting from the inside out. I see it every day: men like the one who screamed outside my tent all night, raving that he “owns Berkeley” and “owns the judges,” terrorizing diners and harassing women—yet suffering no consequences.

This man threatened me with a weapon on a recorded line, and he should be in jail for a decade. But he walks free, because the patriarchy doesn’t just tolerate sociopathic men—it rewards them, protects them, and values their violence above the safety and stability of entire communities.

This isn’t an accident. It’s the design.

Christianity: Patriarchy’s Oldest Engine

Christianity isn’t simply complicit in patriarchy; it’s one of its oldest and most powerful engines. From its inception, Christianity stole its “holy book” from Judaism—half the Bible is the Torah, twisted to serve new dogmas. Concepts like “missing the mark” were lifted wholesale, stripped of their Jewish context, and warped to fit a framework that centers male dominance.

This foundational theft set the stage for a religion that has always been about conquest, colonization, and control. Christianity’s moral logic couldn’t be clearer:

Men are promised lifetime sex slaves through marriage.

They’re guaranteed unearned forgiveness—no matter the cruelty or harm they inflict—because their “savior” died for their sins.

Male authority is framed as divine order, cementing women’s submission as holy duty.

The result? A system that doesn’t just protect sociopathic men—it celebrates them.

Christianity’s Foundation of Theft and Appropriation

Christianity’s rot goes deeper than patriarchy alone: it is built on theft and cultural appropriation, starting with its very foundations.

From the beginning, Christianity appropriated Jewish texts, stories, and concepts, hollowing them out of context and twisting them into a prelude to Jesus—erasing Jewish people’s sovereignty and lived tradition. Half of the Christian Bible—the so-called “Old Testament”—is the Torah, taken and rebranded to legitimize new doctrines.

But the appropriation didn’t end there:

🔗 Concepts like missing the mark (chet) were stolen from Judaism’s teachings on personal responsibility and turned into tools of eternal guilt.

🌍 Christianity spread by seizing Indigenous spiritual practices, holidays, and symbols wherever it went—then relabeling them as Christian to ease colonial control.

🩸 This theft enabled 2,000 years of anti-Jewish persecution, colonialism, and cultural erasure, all framed as “God’s will.”

Appropriation is not incidental to Christianity; it is fundamental. Without this theft, Christianity could never have positioned itself as the universal faith or served so perfectly as a tool of empire.

Sin: Christianity’s Weapon of Thought Crime

One of Christianity’s most insidious inventions is its concept of sin—not simply as harmful actions, but as thought crime. Unlike Judaism, where wrongdoing (chet) focuses on harmful acts that can be repaired, Christianity redefined sin to include thoughts, feelings, and doubts.

This shift made the mind itself a prison:

🧠 Total control — if stray thoughts can damn you, you become your own jailer, internalizing fear and guilt.

🩸 Perpetual guilt — since “sinful” thoughts are unavoidable, you’re always guilty, always dependent on the church for absolution.

🚨 1984-level manipulation — like Orwell’s “thoughtcrime,” this creates constant self-censorship, extending control beyond actions into every corner of human consciousness.

🎭 A tool for men — male leaders can accuse women of impurity or rebellion based solely on presumed or confessed thoughts, justifying endless punishment or control.

This wasn’t a mistake; it was an intentional strategy to colonize the mind, ensuring the church’s power extended beyond bodies and communities into individual brains.

The Prodigal Son: A Blueprint for Sociopathic Privilege

No story exposes Christianity’s support for sociopathic men more clearly than the Prodigal Son—a fable revered as proof of divine mercy, but in reality a blueprint for patriarchal insanity.

The elder son stays, works, and keeps the family afloat.

The prodigal son abandons his father, wastes everything on whores and gambling, then returns empty-handed.

The father celebrates the prodigal with a lavish feast—rewarding betrayal and waste while dismissing the steadfast labor of the son who stayed.

This isn’t a subtle parable; it’s a glaring message: reckless, destructive men deserve celebration simply for existing, while loyal, hardworking people are ignored. Compared with the Buddhist version—focused on compassion and mutual healing—it becomes painfully clear: Christianity twisted a loving story into a manual for excusing sociopathic behavior.

Rule-Following as a Moral Trap

I think of my brilliant friend Heather, raised a “good Christian girl” in Kansas, who internalized that to be good was to follow the rules. This wasn’t coincidence; it was design. Patriarchy teaches women that morality equals obedience, but these rules were written to keep them subjugated, not safe.

When women like Heather follow these rules, they reinforce their own oppression—yet the guilt and fear of breaking them run so deep that stepping outside feels like becoming a “bad” person. This moral trap is essential to keeping women policing themselves and each other, so men don’t have to.

The Suicidal Idiocy of Patriarchal Values

The consequences of this stupidity are everywhere. Men like the one who stalked my street drive away diners, empty downtowns, and destabilize neighborhoods. By protecting violent men, the system harms landlords, restaurants, businesses, and entire communities. Even capitalism suffers under patriarchy’s idiocy—because communities can’t thrive when people are too afraid to simply live their lives.

Meanwhile, women and marginalized people overperform, sustaining the real work of society without reward, while incompetent men rise through brutality, secrecy, and theft.

This isn’t just unjust. It’s suicidal for any society. A world that celebrates those who destroy while crushing those who build is a world on a path to collapse.

Conclusion: A Death Cult of Control

Christianity, from its stolen scriptures to its doctrine of unconditional forgiveness for men, is the backbone of this patriarchal death cult. It doesn’t merely tolerate sociopathic behavior—it trains men to expect rewards for it, teaches women that submission is the highest virtue, and enslaves minds with the poison of thoughtcrime.

Until we confront this directly—naming it for what it is and refusing to comply with a system built to consume us—we will keep living in a society where rage, cruelty, and domination are the only qualities that matter.

And that’s not just evil. It’s insanely stupid.